My research focuses on the development of the repertory or “stock” system of playing: both the ways in which it conditioned the early modern theatre industry and its continued presence in theatre promotion and television writing.
Research Areas
- Shakespeare & Contemporaries
- Theatre History
- Performance & Repertory Studies
- Ecocriticism
- Renaissance Literature & Culture
Elizabeth E. Tavares, PhD, (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar of early modern English drama, whose research foci include playing companies, theatre history, and Shakespeare in performance.
Tavares’s recent interests range from the role climatological phenomena played in the emergence of the professional playing companies and the place of victualing houses in sixteenth-century new play development, to the effects of content curation on early (modern) habits of mind.
Academic Interests
- Digital humanities
- Ecocriticism
- Playing companies
- Practice-based research (PbR)
- Repertory studies
- Shakespeare and his contemporaries
- Textual editing and criticism
- Theater and performance studies
- Theatre History
Specializing in early English drama, her research foci include playing companies, theatre history, and Shakespeare in performance.
